Problems with wiewing utf-8 web-pages on localhost

2005-06-21 Thread Mitja Podreka
Hello I wanted to have UTF-8 support on my Debian Sarge, so I have followed a tutorial on how-to enable UTF-8 on Debian. It works in most cases, but I guess something is still missing, because I cannot view UTF-8 characters in web-pages if I view them on localhost. If I upload the pages on

Re: CNN video with Sarge & Firefox???

2005-06-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Martin D. Weinberg ha escrit, a 21/06/05 21:37: > Hi, > > I'm running sarge and have: > > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main > > with mplayer and plugger installed. When I launch the cnn video window, > mplayer doesn't run. plugger does launch the process, e.g. from ps: > >

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jun 22 2005, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Thanks for the replies, Peter and Rogério. You're welcome, Hans. > It's a P-III 1ghz, 256MB ram, so I don't want to loaded with a too heavy > distro... Your notebook seems to be as powerful as my desktop and that's because I upgraded its processor in the pa

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jonathan Kaye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050621 23:09]: > I don't mean to highhack the thread. Just a quick question. I don't > recall any recent upgrades to Alsa (I'm tracking "testing" i.e. Etch). > Could either of you let me know the alsa packages that got upgraded and > their version numbers so I c

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Rogério Brito ha escrit, a 22/06/05 05:21: > On Jun 21 2005, Hans du Plooy wrote: > >>Just wondering, anyone running Etch, what are your experiences so far? > > > It's working quite nicely here and the recent upgrades to ALSA, to debconf, > to some Gnome libraries (coming from the 2.10 bra

For professional documents use professional software...

2005-06-21 Thread Judith
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Re: need new iso?

2005-06-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mitja Podreka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050621 22:55]: > nephish wrote: > > >i have used the sarge net installer to install debian before, > >now that the sources for sarge are now "stable" do i need to download and > >burn a new iso to get sarge? will the current one i have install etch? > > You do

Re: need new iso?

2005-06-21 Thread Mitja Podreka
nephish wrote: i have used the sarge net installer to install debian before, now that the sources for sarge are now "stable" do i need to download and burn a new iso to get sarge? will the current one i have install etch? You don't need new ISO. It all depends on how you will configure apt-ge

Re: SoundCard Problem

2005-06-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit, a 22/06/05 04:30: > > dmesg shows: > i810: SiS found at IO:0x9000 0x9400.. > i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels > i810_audio: defaults to 2 channel mode > i810_audio: resetting connection 0 > > alsa wasn't installed, I got it installed and

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 07:21 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Thanks for the replies, Peter and Rogério. > > The notebook will be my primary work horse. I haven't used Debian much > as a desktop, except on older PC with more minimalistic window managers, > but having seen a fair bit of Sarge, and bei

Re: What is device 03:4c?

2005-06-21 Thread Marty
Kevin Mark wrote: I used Knoppix as a debian install and have a reiserfs /. I have to have 'reiserfs' in /etc/modules and then make an initrd with this modules(man mkinitrd ). You "have to" use initrd? Why not just compile it into the kernel? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: [OT] splitting files based on keyword

2005-06-21 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On 2005-06-22, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I have a large text file (humongous.txt) with the following structure > > > date 1-1-2005 > line1 > line2 > date 1-2-2005 > line3 > line4 > date 1-3-2005 > line5 > line6 > line7 > line8 > . > > Is there any tool which will split the above file and giv

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Hans du Plooy
Thanks for the replies, Peter and Rogério. The notebook will be my primary work horse. I haven't used Debian much as a desktop, except on older PC with more minimalistic window managers, but having seen a fair bit of Sarge, and being totally hooked on apt-get install, I have decided to put that o

Re: [OT] splitting files based on keyword

2005-06-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:57:07PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I have a large text file (humongous.txt) with the following structure > > > date 1-1-2005 > line1 > line2 > date 1-2-2005 > line3 > line4 > date 1-3-2005 > line5 > line6 > line7 > line8 > . > > Is there any tool which wil

Re: BT848 loose PAL color with 2.4 to 2.6 kernel swicthing

2005-06-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:28:33PM +0200, Laurent Pointal wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > Hi Laurent, > > I've seen a PC104, cool stuff. I would suggest you post to: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/ > > the debian embedded list. > > I posted... then I take a look at list archives... >

Re: What is device 03:4c?

2005-06-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:01:33PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:26:27PM -0400, Marty wrote: > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >Upon booting a reiserfs copy of my woody system, I am told, > > > > > >Can't find a Minix of Minix v2 filesystem on device 03:46 > > >mount: wrong fs t

Re: blueMail 1.2

2005-06-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:06:02PM -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote: > Hi all! Just wanted to ask a question here real fast. > > I just downloaded and built blueMail 1.2 (a QWK/BlueWave reader) for the > Sparc version of Debian GNU/Linux and was wondering what I would need to > do to contribute it to

Re: Kde-KNotify Problem

2005-06-21 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Lee Braiden wrote: On Tuesday 21 Jun 2005 18:20, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: I can login to kde with 18-20 KNotify messages popping up and if I select and click OK on the notification popup or try to close out ktips, the system freezes up or at best operates in super slow motion Th

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-21 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:39:34PM -0700, Valeriu Cerchez wrote: | I'm trying to find out a(/n easy) way to determine | what is my dynamic IP assigned by my ISP (not my | internal DHCP). I recommend using the 'ip' command (in package 'iproute'). My understanding is that it is intended to replace

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs' [SOLVED]

2005-06-21 Thread Dan Fulbright
> >When I try to mount an NFS filesystem, I get this error: > > > >mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs' > > Do a `grep nfs /proc/filesystems' and see what you get back. This will > let you know if currently there is nfs support. > > If nothing, try `modprobe nfs' and give it another shot. If tha

need new iso?

2005-06-21 Thread nephish
OK, sarge is released cool. i need to know something though. i have used the sarge net installer to install debian before, now that the sources for sarge are now "stable" do i need to download and burn a new iso to get sarge? will the current one i have install etch? just curious shawn -- To UNS

Re: [OT] splitting files based on keyword

2005-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:57:07PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I can do it with c or fortran but that does not appear to be elegant. > > I looked at split, csplit. But they dont seem to do this. Googling did > not help much. Any other ideas? Time to learn a scripting language? :) This i

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jun 21 2005, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Just wondering, anyone running Etch, what are your experiences so far? It's working quite nicely here and the recent upgrades to ALSA, to debconf, to some Gnome libraries (coming from the 2.10 branch, I think), easytag 1.99.5 and the availability of gcc-4.0 e

Re: DHCP problem where ip address is assigned to wrong NIC on reboot

2005-06-21 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:32:01PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: | I got a real whacky one. This old machine I've got has two NICs, and during | install I assign eth1 to be the one used, and it gets the ip address from | DHCP. Well, after the reboot, that same IP address is assigned to eth0, and |

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-21 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:48:51PM -0400, Patrick Rutkowski wrote: | On Tuesday 21 June 2005 04:39 pm, Valeriu Cerchez wrote: | > I'm trying to find out a(/n easy) way to determine | > what is my dynamic IP assigned by my ISP (not my | > internal DHCP). I wish to make a script to determine | > that

Re: What is device 03:4c?

2005-06-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:36:04PM -0400, Marty wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >The original system can read and write the reiserfs, so I presume the > >copy would have the same drivers. > > > >Unless, of course, some boot process needs to read the root partition > >before it has discovered the

Re: 8B2A Set Encode Error - Anyone??

2005-06-21 Thread Chris Swanson
> >> I have been trying to figure this one out for a long time now. When > >> using 'iwconfig' to enable the WEP key for my wireless adapter, I get > >> the following: > >> > >> 8B2A (Set Encode) - Operation not Supported > >> > >> Does anyone know what causes this message? I found by searching >

Re: ColdFusion MX (was Misc. Newb Help)

2005-06-21 Thread Eric P
Greg Folkert wrote: your exposure. Coldfusion works fine, I have had MX working on Sarge as recent as 2 months ago. Since nothing really significant has changed... it should be okay. I did have some issues that were resolvable. But, I am not you and it is not my machine, so YMMV. I just tried in

Spam?! [Was: Re: Initial install question]

2005-06-21 Thread roach
What's going on here? Mark Anderson's 'HTML only' post got caught by one of my spam traps. "Not so important", you say. Yes, if it wasn't for the fact that SpamAssassin on murphy.debian.org gave his post a score of 3.6/4. Way too high for something that isn't even close to being spam. On the o

Re: [OT] splitting files based on keyword

2005-06-21 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I have a large text file (humongous.txt) with the following structure date 1-1-2005 line1 line2 date 1-2-2005 line3 line4 date 1-3-2005 line5 line6 line7 line8 . Is there any tool which will split the above file and give me three smaller files 1-1-2005.txt, 1-2

Re: What is device 03:4c?

2005-06-21 Thread Marty
Hendrik Boom wrote: The original system can read and write the reiserfs, so I presume the copy would have the same drivers. Unless, of course, some boot process needs to read the root partition before it has discovered the reiser kernel modules. Is that likely? Just when *does* the boot proces

Re: ssh: No route to host

2005-06-21 Thread Geoff Jacobs
Guillaume TESSIER wrote: > John Wilkes wrote: > >> On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 22:56 +0200, Guillaume TESSIER wrote: >> >> >>> NAT translation is not a concept i can resume in some lines. >>> But , broadly, it works like this : >>> >>> For exemple, you have ssh server (your mum'smachine) that has a >>

Re: secure apache in debian

2005-06-21 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Michael Martinell wrote: > I know that this might not be entirely on-topic however: > > What is the best way to secure an entire site in apache? I have 3.1 r0 and > have installed the apache package. Basically I want 1 user to be able to > access any directory or folder that exists now or will e

Re: SoundCard Problem

2005-06-21 Thread ankur . kumar
dmesg shows: i810: SiS found at IO:0x9000 0x9400.. i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels i810_audio: defaults to 2 channel mode i810_audio: resetting connection 0 Ryan Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 22/06/2005 10:24 AM                 To:        debian-user@lists.debian.or

Re: One time deal: Backup of raid5 to set of removeable hard drives on another machine?

2005-06-21 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > I have a (remotely stationed) server with a raid5 with about 630 GB of data > that I would like to backup to a set of removeable hard drives on another > pc at the same location. > > I will use 250GB hard drives as removeables. Based upon experimentation with

Re: What is device 03:4c?

2005-06-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:56:04PM -0400, Marty wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > >The actual MBR used for both the failing boot and the successful boot > >are on /dev/fd0. LILO was told boot=/dev/fd0. It's remarkably safe > >to play with a floppy's MBRs, because you can have so many of them. >

Re: DHCP problem where ip address is assigned to wrong NIC on reboot

2005-06-21 Thread Marty
Xeno Campanoli wrote: I got a real whacky one. This old machine I've got has two NICs, and during install I assign eth1 to be the one used, and it gets the ip address from DHCP. Well, after the reboot, that same IP address is assigned to eth0, and I get no network. I've solved this by switchin

[OT] splitting files based on keyword

2005-06-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I have a large text file (humongous.txt) with the following structure date 1-1-2005 line1 line2 date 1-2-2005 line3 line4 date 1-3-2005 line5 line6 line7 line8 . Is there any tool which will split the above file and give me three smaller files 1-1-2005.txt, 1-2-2005.txt, 1-3-2005.txt etc.

Re: X configuration

2005-06-21 Thread Marty
Angus Leeming wrote: dpkg-divert: `diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz-artwiz by artwiz-cursor' clashes with `diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz-base by xfonts

RE: New install doesn't see DHCP

2005-06-21 Thread peter green
you see to have multiple adaptors its possible that they changed numbers between installation and the running system. (this tends to happen because modules are loaded in a different order) > -Original Message- > From: Xeno Campanoli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 June 2005 01:07 >

Re: Copy protected CD's

2005-06-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 07:47:33PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Read an article in the WP about copyprotected CD's: > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061800149.html > > > > Would cdparanoia care? > > I read that article all the way through this AM, h

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-21 Thread Tom Allison
I found that link very interesting: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/04/msg11344.html "Nine reasons why you should be using aptitude instead of apt-get or dselect." However, I am really not happy with aptitude. I prefered apt-get. Really. But I will give aptitude a chance. I found

RE: jfs or reiser

2005-06-21 Thread Steven Jones
I have used reiser for squid servers for over a year and they are heavily loaded, no issues. Don't use software raid its flaky, so use reiser on hw raid. Regards thing -Original Message- From: John Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:29 a.m. To: debian-user@

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-21 Thread Tom Allison
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: Thanks Kent, that did the trick "touch /etc/X11/Xserver" followed by "apt-get dist-upgrade -f" I am still having problems with a few application but at least my installations are not erring out like they were before. Brian From what I found from the Debian Weekly

Re: xorg package

2005-06-21 Thread camp lear
> I use this packages: > deb http://debian.linux-systeme.com unstable main > deb-src http://debian.linux-systeme.com unstable main > I use these as well. Would you imagine that once xorg gets into the official debian repos that we would be able to track those x-window-system packages and their

CUPS restart-jobs permission

2005-06-21 Thread Beretta
Fellow Debian Users, I have a _closed_ network (not connected to the internet) on which I have a Debian server with CUPS installed. I have done a fair amount of searching, but I cannot figure out how I can configure CUPS to allow _anyone_ to restart a completed job. I understand that this would

Re: DHCP problem where ip address is assigned to wrong NIC on reboot

2005-06-21 Thread Robert Wolfe
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Xeno Campanoli wrote: I got a real whacky one. This old machine I've got has two NICs, and during install I assign eth1 to be the one used, and it gets the ip address from DHCP. Well, after the reboot, that same IP address is assigned to eth0, and I get no network. I've s

Available printers

2005-06-21 Thread David A. Cobb
Debian kernel-2.4.29-f3, mostly sarge, some sid. Gnome Desktop 2.8.3 Cups: 1.0.23-10 mozilla-firefox browser, 2 versions, debian 1.0.2 for everybody but myself Epson Color Stylus CX5400 printer When I print from my own desktop, the choices of printer offered by the browser's print dialog are:

DHCP problem where ip address is assigned to wrong NIC on reboot

2005-06-21 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I got a real whacky one. This old machine I've got has two NICs, and during install I assign eth1 to be the one used, and it gets the ip address from DHCP. Well, after the reboot, that same IP address is assigned to eth0, and I get no network. I've solved this by switching the cable over and reb

Re: SoundCard Problem

2005-06-21 Thread Ryan Schultz
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 07:31 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > alsa wasn't installed, I got it installed and ran "alsaconf". > > It couldn't find any PCI or any other driver. I got integrated sound card > with motherboard. > That could be the reason. > > Tried 'cat /etc/sndstat' , but doesn't display

New install doesn't see DHCP

2005-06-21 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I just tried a new Sarge install here at my job this time. Now I'm having a different problem. The installer seems to "execute?" dhcp connections alright, at least on the initial cd install (it for instance, gets the domain name correct in the guess for that value, and ifconfig gives an ip addre

Re: Misc. Newb Help

2005-06-21 Thread Eric P
Dominik Epple wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:05:11AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Tuesday 21 June 2005 06:19, Eric P wrote: Patrick Rutkowski wrote: On Monday 20 June 2005 10:14 pm, Eric P wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: 2. I have a .bash_profile in my user directly, but it's not being

Installing custom kernel-image fails on LVM error - I'm lost :/

2005-06-21 Thread Mart Frauenlob
Hello, I'm really stuck on this problem. I already spent 1,5 days on it :/ What i'm trying to do: Install a custom kernel-image build with debian kernel-source and make-dpkg. I try to trimm down the kernel to hold only what is absolutely necessary. Also i try to compile directly into the kernel

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-21 Thread Marty
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: If the job can be done with Priority `required' or `important' tools, there is a much better chance of the script being portable. Good point although it seems both lynx and wget are also optional, and I don't know of any required package that reads web sites. Are ther

Re: X configuration

2005-06-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Kent West wrote: >>However, I find that I simply can't install artwiz-cursor, even if I >>purge xfonts-artwiz from my system (below). Any ideas on how to proceed? >>Angus >> >>$ dpkg --purge xfonts-artwiz >> >> > I'd try "apt-get --purge remove xfonts-artwiz", instead of using dpkg. Thanks for p

Re: SoundCard Problem

2005-06-21 Thread ankur . kumar
alsa wasn't installed, I got it installed and ran "alsaconf". It couldn't find any PCI or any other driver. I got integrated sound card with motherboard. That could be the reason. Tried 'cat /etc/sndstat' , but doesn't display anything. Checked '/etc/modules.conf', alsa has put alsa-related sou

jfs or reiser

2005-06-21 Thread John Kelly
I need to choose a filesystem for many small files. I read that reiser is good, but I also see reports of problems with reiser, so I wonder if I should use jfs instead. -- A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it m

Re: bmp/ppm/jpeg/pbm to wsq/nist2000 file format changer

2005-06-21 Thread Geoff Jacobs
Mustafa Golam wrote: > We are working for a finger print validation system. > We have taken NFIS as our base. > We need some bmp/ppm/jpeg/pbm to wsq/nist2000 file format changer. > any link or Free program will be quit help full. > any doc to converter program or specification of wsq/nist 2000 fil

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:06:08PM -0400, Marty wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > 8< > >#!/bin/sh > >EMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > >lynx -dump http://checkip.dyndns.org |sed -n '/Current/s/.*: > >\([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\)/\1/p' | /usr/bin/Mail -s "IP address as > >

blueMail 1.2

2005-06-21 Thread Robert Wolfe
Hi all! Just wanted to ask a question here real fast. I just downloaded and built blueMail 1.2 (a QWK/BlueWave reader) for the Sparc version of Debian GNU/Linux and was wondering what I would need to do to contribute it to the next release of Debian? I would be more than happy to attempt an

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-21 Thread Marty
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: 8< #!/bin/sh EMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" lynx -dump http://checkip.dyndns.org |sed -n '/Current/s/.*: \([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\)/\1/p' | /usr/bin/Mail -s "IP address as of `date`" $EMAIL 8< HTH, -Roberto FWIW this site

sources.list says my Sarge is unstable

2005-06-21 Thread Alexandre Irrthum
Hi, I'm discovering Debian and just installed Debian 3.1 r0a (Sarge). The /etc/apt/sources.list file confuses me. Why are the cdrom sources marked as unstable if Sarge is now stable ? Why is the first line commented out ? Is the last line, added by me, OK, or is it better to put sarge/updates inst

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-21 Thread Mr Mike
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 16:48 -0400, Patrick Rutkowski wrote: > On Tuesday 21 June 2005 04:39 pm, Valeriu Cerchez wrote: > > I'm trying to find out a(/n easy) way to determine > > what is my dynamic IP assigned by my ISP (not my > > internal DHCP). I wish to make a script to determine > > that by re

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:48:51PM -0400, Patrick Rutkowski wrote: > On Tuesday 21 June 2005 04:39 pm, Valeriu Cerchez wrote: > > I'm trying to find out a(/n easy) way to determine > > what is my dynamic IP assigned by my ISP (not my > > internal DHCP). I wish to make a script to determine > > that

Re: APT can't recognize Packages.gz?

2005-06-21 Thread Mr Mike
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 14:56 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Tuesday 21 Jun 2005 14:51, Redefined Horizons wrote: > > I added the "debs file:///home debs/" line to my sources.list file. > > > > However, I am getting this error when I start Synaptic, which has me > > puzzled: > > > > "W: Couldn't stat

Re: .aptitude/config and Automatic Cache Deletion

2005-06-21 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 07:03, Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > 'Autoclean' doesn't seem to be quite what I used in the past. autoclean: remove obsolete packages from the cache. clean: remove all packages from the cache. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

New toshset packages.

2005-06-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Greetings (and apologies for the cross-post), [I am not on debian-laptop, so please CC me from that list] I have just uploaded (via my sponsor) new a toshset package to Sid. The version is 1.68. I would appreciate as much feedback as possible on this new version. This version supports accessin

Re: What is device 03:4c?

2005-06-21 Thread Marty
Hendrik Boom wrote: The actual MBR used for both the failing boot and the successful boot are on /dev/fd0. LILO was told boot=/dev/fd0. It's remarkably safe to play with a floppy's MBRs, because you can have so many of them. There is a "feature" (bug?) in LILO that I've never quite understood

Re: Enabling apache2 and ssl - is there an easy way?

2005-06-21 Thread Robert S
"Andy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> I think I'll stick to 1.3.xx - its worked very well for the last year. > Argh, wish I'd read to the end before bothering to reply. :) No need to despair. All a very valuable learning experience. Actually I've had a pro

One time deal: Backup of raid5 to set of removeable hard drives on another machine?

2005-06-21 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I have a (remotely stationed) server with a raid5 with about 630 GB of data that I would like to backup to a set of removeable hard drives on another pc at the same location. I will use 250GB hard drives as removeables. Based upon experimentation with data I find that using tar zcvf I w

Broken artsd

2005-06-21 Thread Patrick Rutkowski
My artsd is very broken. Ever hour or so it starts to take up 97% of my processor and I loose my sound. After a period of about 10 minutes my speakers spit out all the sounds that should have been played in one big mess. I'm to the point where I feel that I need to compile artsd by hand, but I'

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-21 Thread Christopher Rueber
This is the program that I use for dnsexit (a dynamic DNS update place): http://serve.me.nus.edu.sg/limcg/getip.html   You could very easily adapt the perl code in getip to just return the current external ip address as well. A couple cut's'n'pastes and you're back in business.   Chris.  On 6/21/05

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-21 Thread Patrick Rutkowski
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 04:39 pm, Valeriu Cerchez wrote: > I'm trying to find out a(/n easy) way to determine > what is my dynamic IP assigned by my ISP (not my > internal DHCP). I wish to make a script to determine > that by request. > > I would greatly appreciate any suggestion. > Thanks, Val. >

Re: CNN video with Sarge & Firefox???

2005-06-21 Thread steef
Martin D. Weinberg wrote: Hi, I'm running sarge and have: ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main with mplayer and plugger installed. When I launch the cnn video window, mplayer doesn't run. plugger does launch the process, e.g. from ps: plugger-5.1.3 24832,1,41,52428840,0,0,468,29

How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-21 Thread Valeriu Cerchez
I'm trying to find out a(/n easy) way to determine what is my dynamic IP assigned by my ISP (not my internal DHCP). I wish to make a script to determine that by request. I would greatly appreciate any suggestion. Thanks, Val. __ Discover Yahoo!

Re: [OT] Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-21 Thread Peter J Ross
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:41:02AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > I'm in America (USA to be specific), and I avoid math whenever I can. > > It's calculators for me, whenever possible. :-) > > Is it bad of me that I avoid calculators whenever possible and instead go > for a P

RE: Sarge problems with MySQL and DBI / DBD::mysql

2005-06-21 Thread John Trammell
#!perl use strict; use warnings; sub foo { warn "wantarray() in foo() is: ", wantarray(), "\n"; my @r = 3 .. 8; return @r; } my @x = foo() or warn "in ... or warn() #1\n"; warn "[EMAIL PROTECTED]: @x\n"; my $x = foo() or warn "in ... or warn() #2\n"; warn "\$x: $x\n"; > -Origi

Re: What is device 03:4c?

2005-06-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:26:27PM -0400, Marty wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >Upon booting a reiserfs copy of my woody system, I am told, > > > >Can't find a Minix of Minix v2 filesystem on device 03:46 > >mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev2/root > >or too many mounted f

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Peter J Ross
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:52:12PM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi guys, > > Just wondering, anyone running Etch, what are your experiences so far? So far it's been very similar to Sarge. I've noticed a change in the default version of bash, a minor upgrade for ALSA, and the inclusion of gcc4.0

Re: test

2005-06-21 Thread steef
Jin Juku wrote: i got this email, if that's helpful to you. -jin- On 6/21/05, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi folks, sorry to bother you: but please inform me if this message comes automatically in the mailbox for incoming messages. Ian had some trouble with my messages in another s

Broke artsd

2005-06-21 Thread Patrick Rutkowski
My artsd is very broken. Ever hour or so it starts to take up 97% of my processor and I loose my sound. After a period of about 10 minutes my speakers spit out all the sounds that should have been played in one big mess. I'm to the point where I feel that I need to compile artsd by hand, but I'

secure apache in debian

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Martinell
I know that this might not be entirely on-topic however: What is the best way to secure an entire site in apache? I have 3.1 r0 and have installed the apache package. Basically I want 1 user to be able to access any directory or folder that exists now or will ever exist in the future in the /var

Re: CNN video with Sarge & Firefox???

2005-06-21 Thread Martin D. Weinberg
Hi, I'm running sarge and have: ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main with mplayer and plugger installed. When I launch the cnn video window, mplayer doesn't run. plugger does launch the process, e.g. from ps: plugger-5.1.3 24832,1,41,52428840,0,0,468,297 mplayer -quiet -cache 8192

Re: sarge security

2005-06-21 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 03:04:46PM -0400, John Graves wrote: > Dave Patterson wrote: > > >http://www.debian.org/security/faq#handling > > > >deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free > > > >To your /etc/apt/sources.list > > > >apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade > > >

Re: sarge security

2005-06-21 Thread John Graves
Dave Patterson wrote: http://www.debian.org/security/faq#handling deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free To your /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade I have had that (except it reads sarge/updates) in my sources.list and have not receive

Re: debblue.debian.net squatter

2005-06-21 Thread roach
On Saturday 18 June 2005 03:51, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > IIRC, the guy who was developing debblue lost his hosting and had to > move it somewhere else.  The DNS may have not been updated, or your ISP > may not have respected the TTL set by the debian.net admins. Thanks. You were spot on, Robert

Re: Re: Firefox / Profile

2005-06-21 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:28:32PM -0400, x wrote: > updatedb && locate parent.lock returned nothing... > > find ~/.mozilla -name '*lock' -- I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos. -- Albert Einstein, on the randomness of quantum mechanics -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

test

2005-06-21 Thread steef
hi folks, sorry to bother you: but please inform me if this message comes automatically in the mailbox for incoming messages. Ian had some trouble with my messages in another setting: had to do this by hand. i changed these settings. th., steef groet'n uit groningen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-06-21 Thread steef
Ian Langnickel wrote: Hi Steef, as my mailrules fail to automatically move your messages into my mailinglist folder and I always have to move them manually I would like to ask you to correct some setting in your mailreader software. The "To: " header is broken with your current configuration,

Re: sarge security

2005-06-21 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello *, On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 12:09:38PM -0600, yo mero wrote: > So can I ignore this : > http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200506142140 > > as it its from the same guy who sends the security advisories > worried me a LOT According to one of the Release Managers you can ignore this, s

Re: What is device 03:4c?

2005-06-21 Thread Marty
Hendrik Boom wrote: Upon booting a reiserfs copy of my woody system, I am told, Can't find a Minix of Minix v2 filesystem on device 03:46 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev2/root or too many mounted file systems Did you remember to make the partition bootable? Is the

Re: aptitude errors

2005-06-21 Thread Dean Montgomery
I was able to fix the problem by: aptitude reinstall nagios-plugins On Tue, 2005-21-06 at 12:54 -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dean Montgomery wrote: > > > I am unable to get aptitude to work. > > > > === > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt# aptitude i

Re: How to reinstall without changing anything?

2005-06-21 Thread Jose Alejandro Perez Vasquez
On Sunday 19 June 2005 22:59, Mike Oliver wrote: > Still, if there were a simple way to reinstall, keeping all the same > packages and not losing any customizations, I might do it. But I don't > recall any way to avoid answering a million questions at install time. > Really, I shouldn't have to an

Re: .aptitude/config and Automatic Cache Deletion

2005-06-21 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mm> Look in /etc/apt/apt.con : > mm> APT::Clean-Installed "false"; > mm> or true > > >From apt.conf(5): > >Clean-Installed Defaults to on. When turned on the autoclean >feature will remove any packages which can no longer be

What is device 03:4c?

2005-06-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
Upon booting a reiserfs copy of my woody system, I am told, Can't find a Minix of Minix v2 filesystem on device 03:46 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev2/root or too many mounted file systems and other such messages, repeated about mot being able to find a FAT file syste

Re: aptitude errors

2005-06-21 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- Robert Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dean Montgomery wrote: > > > I am unable to get aptitude to work. > > > > === > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt# aptitude install cacti > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree >

Re: sarge security

2005-06-21 Thread yo mero
On 6/21/05, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > yo mero (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Can't find any convincing information about Sarge Security status > > some say there's no security for sarge other says yes but > > officially where can I find the sarge security statu

Re: sarge security

2005-06-21 Thread Dave Patterson
* yo mero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-06-21 11:25:47 -0600]: > hello : > > Can't find any convincing information about Sarge Security status > some say there's no security for sarge other says yes but > officially where can I find the sarge security status ? > > Thank you > > Leonel > htt

Re: Sarge problems with MySQL and DBI / DBD::mysql

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Stassen
Oliver Elphick wrote: We have an application that has just upgraded to Debian sarge with mysql upgrading from 3.23.49 to 4.0.24. As far as I know I have followed all the procedures for upgrading the database. Some queries always fail in DBD::mysql (in DBI) although they work OK with the mysql

Re: sarge security

2005-06-21 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello yo mero (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Can't find any convincing information about Sarge Security status > some say there's no security for sarge other says yes but > officially where can I find the sarge security status ? Sarge is stable, and has been stable for about two weeks, so it

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